Summer Music Festivals

Strategize where to spend the summer. In addition to helping you hone your craft and work with experts, festivals can help you develop a specialty (new music, baroque, chamber, etc), build musical networks, and open up new markets (abroad and within the US).

So, make a career coaching appointment to articulate your foals, and then use the resources at your fingertips – faculty knowledge, fellow colleagues, and resources such as the follow links – to find the right experience for you.

Festivals

Classical

*Festival Name*	*Program Type*	*Apply Date*
American Bach Soloists Academy	Early Music	February 28
Amherst Early Music Festival	Early Music, Dance	April 15
AIMS-Graz (Austria)	Vocal, Orchestral	February 1
Aria International Summer Academy	Vocal	April 1
Aspen Music Festival and School	Opera, Orchestral, Collaborative Piano, Conducting	September 15, Opera November 1, Collaborative Piano November 12, Conducting January 14, Instrumental
Atlantic Music Festival Institute	Instrumental, Vocal, Chamber	November 30
Bang On A Can Summer Festival	New Music	January 11
Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity (Canada)	Opera, Chamber, Composition, Individual Project Sessions (Seasonal)	Various
Blossom Music Festival	Instrumental, Chamber, Piano	February 1
Bowdoin International Music Festival	Instrumental, Composition, Piano, Chamber	January 15
Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival	Opera, Orchestral, Instrumental	Various
Britten-Pears Arts Aldeburgh Festival (England)	Instrumental, Voice	Rolling
Centrum Summer Festival	Chamber, Voice	March 1, Chamber Voice opens in January
Chautauqua Institution & Festival	Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Conducting	Feb 1, Instrumental Feb 15, Piano, Conducting Nov 1, Opera
Clazz International Music Festival (Italy)	Crossover Classical and Jazz	Opens in December
Colorado College Summer Music Festival	Orchestral	February 15
Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy)	Composition, Instrumental	February 1
Credo National Festival	Orchestral	February 15
Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy (Quebec, Canada)	Instrumental, Chamber	Opens in December
Eastern Music Festival	Orchestral	February 20
Hot Springs Music Festival	Orchestral	Open in December
International Contemporary Ensemble: Ensemble Evolution	New Music, Instrumental, Composition	Opens in January
Killington Music Festival	Chamber Music	March 1
Madeline Island Chamber Music	Chamber Music	February 15
Marrowstone Music Festival	Orchestral	February 1
Meadowmount School of Music	Strings	January 20
Monteux School & Music Festival	Orchestral, Conducting	January 1
Mostly Modern Festival	Instrumental, Conducting, Voice, Piano, Composition	February 2, Composition April 1, Instrumental, Conducting, Piano April 15, Voice
Music Academy of the West	Instrumental, Collaborative Piano, Voice	October 15, Voice January 15, Collaborative Piano February 1, Instrumental, Solo Piano
Music at Menlo Festival & Chamber Music Institute	Chamber Music	January 15
National Orchestral Institute at Kennedy Center	Orchestral, Conducting, Composition	January 10, Composition February 6, Orchestral, Conducting, Sphinx Fellowship
National Repertory Orchestra	Orchestral, Conducting	January 26
Nief-Norf Summer Festival	Instrumental, Composition	February 15
Norfolk Chamber	New Music, Chamber, Voice, Conducting	January 4, New Music Workshop, Chamber Music Session March 14, Choir & Choral Conducting
NYU Summer Sessions	Various	Opens in January
Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute	Early Music	June 1
Opera in the Ozarks	Opera	January 28
Oregon Bach Festival – Berwick Academy	Early Music	January 30, Instrumental March 4, Organ
Pacific Music Festival (Japan)	Orchestral	January 17
PRISMA (British Columbia, Canada)	Orchestral, Conducting	February 28
Ravinia Steans Festival	Voice, Instrumental, Composition	September 30, Voice January 31, Piano, Strings, Composition
Rocky Ridge Music Center	Instrumental, Chamber	March 15
Round Top Festival Institute	Orchestral, Conducting	February 5
San Francisco Early Music Society Summer Workshops & Classes	Early Music	Rolling
Sarasota Music Festival	Orchestral, Conducting	February 15
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany)	Orchestral	November 30
Scotia Festival of Music (Nova Scotia, Canada)	Chamber Music	February 15
Sewanee Music Festival	Opera, Orchestral, Composition	January 18, Opera March 22, Instrumental, Composition
Talis Festival & Academy	Chamber Music, Composition	February 15
Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute	Early Music	Opens in December
Taneycomo Festival Orchestra	Orchestral	Opens in January
Tanglewood Music Center	Composition, Vocal Arts, Instrumental, Conducting, Piano, Library	October 15, Vocal Arts, Composition December 12, Conducting TBA – Instrumental, Library, Piano
Texas Music Festival	Orchestral, Voice, Piano, Jazz	February 13, Orchestral April 1 Voice, Piano
Verbier Festival Academy	Instrumental, Conducting, Voice, Chamber	November 3, Voice January 18, Chamber, Orchestral, Conducting
Yellow Barn Summer Festival	Instrumental, Chamber	January 24, Live January 30, Video
Youth Orchestra of the Americas	Orchestral, Conducting, Composition	November 1

Jazz & Popular Music

*Festival Name*	*Program Type*	*Apply Date*
The Gathering Orchestra	Two-year Fellowship	TBD
Jazz Aspen Snowmass Academy	Big Band, Afro-Cuban Big Band	March 1
The Woodshed Network	Women in Jazz	Nov 23
Telluride Student All-Stars Ensembles	Flagship Educational Program	June 1
Boysie Lowery Living Jazz Residency	Two-week performance, composing, arranging, improvisation intensive residency	April 1
Keep an Eye Summer Jazz Workshop (Amsterdam, Netherlands)	International jazz workshop	May 1
Siena Jazz International Summer Workshop (Italy)	International jazz workshop	February 1
Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead at Kennedy Center	Jazz education residency program	January 1
Stanford Jazz Institute	Jazz education workshop	Opens in November

Composition, Theory, and New Music

*Festival Name*	*Program Type*	*Apply Date*
SPLICE Institute	New Music	February 1
Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy)	Composition, Instrumental	December 15
European American Musical Alliance (France)	Composition Workshop & Reading Session	March 15
Vienna Contemporary Composers Forum (Austria)	Composition Workshop	March 15
SŌ Percussion Summer Institute	Composition, Percussion	February 1
Collaborative Composition Initiative Workshop	New Music, Composition	October 1
LunART Composers Hub	Professional Development Workshop for Women Composers	January 15
highSCORE New Music Festival & Master Classes (Italy)	New Music, Instrumental	Rolling
Youth Orchestra of the Americas	Composition, Instrumental	October 1